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King's Lynn V Stoke (nl) - Thursday 5th September 2013
BWitcher replied to Mimmo's topic in National League Speedway
Ah, so all the witnesses saw something that didn't happen. Bridger took to twitter to ramble incoherently about something that didn't happen. After all he only 'put his head to Lamberts head'. Ah well, Boyce only put his hand to Gollobs head too. The tweets from Bridger after the meeting summed him up in a nutshell and he was revelling in the attention of those egging him on. -
Wolverhampton as a club have excellent continuity to be fair. It's only due to points limits, which are a necessary evil that riders such as Sam Ermolenko, Ronnie Correy, Peter Karlsson, Adam Skornicki have ever rode for another club. PK especially has been a victim so many times when, simply due to his age he would be left out in favour of riders like Tai and Freddie.
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That would make more sense, but still irrelevant in the grand scheme of things.
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No they won't. Only a few ignorant ones would. Holder was a long way behind Woffinden already, and as Woffindens scoring has continued unabated there is little chance he could have made any inroads. Woffinden is already AHEAD of Emil, despite crashing out of one GP himself (losing 5-6 pts min) in the process, plus riding with an injury after that.
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Not the hardest of questions as Freddie Lindgren had his testimonial this year.
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King's Lynn V Stoke (nl) - Thursday 5th September 2013
BWitcher replied to Mimmo's topic in National League Speedway
Utter utter rubbish. This is a story in the public domain, that Bridger is quite happy to be in the public domain as his endless tweets demonstrated last night. -
King's Lynn V Stoke (nl) - Thursday 5th September 2013
BWitcher replied to Mimmo's topic in National League Speedway
And as per the norm you fail to mention Bridgers own admission of "I put my head to his head". -
King's Lynn V Stoke (nl) - Thursday 5th September 2013
BWitcher replied to Mimmo's topic in National League Speedway
Sadly this thread just highlights the state of the BSF. We have a newsworthy incident here worthy of discussion. It's clearly happened as there are several witnesses and riders involved have tweeted about it.... However, of course certain trollers decide to just launch an attack on one of the posters. It's perfectly relevant to be in the EL section. Lewis Bridger is an EL rider. Many would not even have seen news of the incident if it was just contained in the NL thread. -
Joe Hughes Invitational - 16 Sep
BWitcher replied to T.N.T.'s topic in Speedway Testimonials & Individual and Shared Events
Why no Tai or Freddie in this? Bit strange for a meeting held at Wolves. -
Buxton Speedway 20th Anniversary Air Fence Challenge 29/9
BWitcher replied to THE DEAN MACHINE's topic in Speedway Testimonials & Individual and Shared Events
I've never been to Buxton before, one of the few tracks I haven't. Someone mentioned to me that Sam (Ermolenko) was riding, so it looks like I'll be flying over to take in this meeting for sure. -
Joe Hughes Invitational - 16 Sep
BWitcher replied to T.N.T.'s topic in Speedway Testimonials & Individual and Shared Events
Looks like got to re-arrange my flight. Can't miss GOD! -
It can't be so though.. some tell us the riders ride for our entertainment! Ah you're referring to a meeting that finished 53-40.. fair enough, take of the 3pts from the tac ride. 50-40. Same result, 3 pts to Kings Lynn. The old system, although most us prefer it as we grew up with it was so much unfairer. Lets say you are riding a team with a big top 2. You gradually extend your lead until you get to Heat 13 and you are 8-10 pts up. Current system you fancy your chances, as even allowing for 2 5-1's again in 13 and 15, you're stronger in heat 14. Not so in the old system... a 4-2 or 5-1 (depending if they away team was 8 or 10 down as they would ensure they are 6 down going into heat 14) in 13.. a double tac sub in heat 14, a race the home team on paper were going to gain an advantage in.. suddenly its a 5-1 to the away team.. then the same pairing come out again to finish the job in heat 15. Top heavy teams were far far more favoured under the old system.
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I don't disagree with you, indeed I would have thought it was safer as most speedway crashes are in the first turn when 4 riders hit the bend together. Fact remains though, some riders wouldn't take them. Jason Crump to name one.
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In principle its a good idea as it makes riders work and earn the extra points. Sadly some riders used to refuse to take the ride, citing it as 'dangerous'. It certainly never bothered Peter Karlsson
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So you prefer a more unfair system? Its amusing, we get this every time. Complaints of the current system being unfair and how we should revert back to the old way of doing it which was a hell of a lot more unfair.
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Yes it is fair. The rules are the same for all teams (most of the time ). Of course you might prefer to watch more meetings like Poole V Lakeside, which tactical riders and the league scoring system go a long way towards preventing happening on a more frequent basis.
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So you want to lower the quality even further. We've seen the success of that business model over the last 5 or 6 years in the Elite League.
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So you feel that in order to cut costs they should have scrapped the nominated heats and thus reduced the value the paying customer is/was getting even further?
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Well you can't legislate for Agent Watt
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It wasn't a rumour, it was confirmed by a number of promoters at the time. Actually Heat 13 makes perfect sense as the higher earners will be beating each other.
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Lot of flaws in your argument there. If you went from 14 up to losing by 4 then your balanced team didn't get the job done. It's likely for that to have happened only one tac ride would have been used, giving a maximum of an extra 3 pts, so you would still have lost anyway in your scenario. I do understand your point however, the tactical system has always favored the top heavy teams. It favors the losing team less now than it has ever done since tacticals were introduced though.
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Here we go again....
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Are you living in some sort of parallel universe where the nation is clamouring for speedway to be on tv?
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Another ill-educated foolish comment.
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